ANKARA – At least 50 rebel soldiers involved in an attempted military coup have surrendered to Turkish police on one of the bridges across the Bosphorus in Istanbul, abandoning their tanks with their hands raised in the air, live footage on CNN Turk showed.
Witnesses earlier saw tens of other pro-coup soldiers surrendering to armed police after being surrounded in Istanbul’s central Taksim square.
?50 soldiers involved in the coup attempt in #Turkey have surrendered on #Istanbul‘s #Bosphorus bridge
? pic.twitter.com/AQrfigFWds— Mete Sohtaoğlu (@metesohtaoglu) July 16, 2016
The soldiers handed over their guns and were taken away in police vans as a fighter jet repeatedly screeched overhead at low altitude, causing a boom that shook surrounding buildings and shattered windows.
